US Department of State1976

NOTE

The following State Department telegram to Robert Goeckermann, the science attache for the US embassy in Brazil details the US government's response to Goeckermann's questions about whether Josef F. Blumrich, the author of The Spaceships of Ezekiel, was as he claimed a NASA propulsion scientist. The government official asserted that he could turn up no affiliation of Blumrich with NASA. (Blumrich had served as an engineer at NASA in the 1960s and early 1970s.) The memo also explains that NASA was not involved in the meeting of the Ancient Astronaut Society scheduled for later that year in Brazil.

DRAFTED BY OES/APT/SA:IMPIKUSAPPROVED BY OES/APT/SA:IMPIKUS#/ECA:D.PASCUANASA/I:L.ROBOCK------------------272157Z 003806 /70R 272116Z DEC 76FM SECSTATE WASHDCTO AMEMBASSY BRASILIAUNCLAS STATE 311210E.O. 11652: N/ATAGS: TSPA, BRSUBJECT: ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS SOCIETY MEETINGFOR SCICOUNS GOECKERMANN1. OUR INQUIRIES PURSUANT TO YOUR REQUEST HAVE TURNED UP NO REPEAT NO CONNECTION BETWEEN NASA AND EITHER DR. JOSEPH BLUMERICH OR DR. HARRY HIPPE. NO OFFICIAL AFFILIATION OF EITHER GENTLEMEN HAS SURFACED. IN ADDITION, WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT NASA WILL NOT HAVE ANY REPRESENTATION AT SUBJECT MEETING. ROBINSON